A corrida para o Oscar está naquela fase em que foi dada a largada, mas ainda há muitas produções misturadas. Por mais que existam favoritos e já se saiba que alguns filmes estarão no pelotão de elite, o número de esperançosos é grande.

Na disputa por indicações na categoria de Melhor Documentário em Longa-metragem, por exemplo, 170 filmes se adequaram às regras e conseguiram se inscrever. Esse ano, uma das novidades é que não serão mais permitidos documentários em várias partes, como foi o caso do vencedor do ano passado, O.J.: Made in America.

Em dezembro, após uma votação preliminar, a Academia deve divulgar uma lista reduzida de documentários que continuarão na corrida. A lista final com cinco indicados, no entanto, só será conhecida em 23 de janeiro. A cerimônia do Oscar, por sua vez, acontece em 04 de março.

Abaixo, confira a lista completa dos 170 documentários. Os nomes foram mantidos em inglês, conforme divulgado pela Academia.

• Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
• Aida’s Secrets
• Al Di Qua
• All the Rage
• All These Sleepless Nights
• AlphaGo
• The American Media and the Second Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
• And the Winner Isn’t
• Angels Within
• Architects of Denial
• Arthur Miller: Writer
• Atomic Homefront
• The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography
• Bang! The Bert Berns Story
• Bending the Arc
• Big Sonia
• Bill Nye: Science Guy
• Birthright: A War Story
• Bobbi Jene
• Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
• Born in China
• Born to Lead: The Sal Aunese Story
• Boston
• Brimstone & Glory
• Bronx Gothic
• Burden
• California Typewriter
• Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A Bad Boy Story
• Casting JonBenet
• Chasing Coral
• Chasing Trane
• Chavela
• Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
• City of Ghosts (imagem)
• Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives
• Cries from Syria
• Cruel & Unusual
• Cuba and the Cameraman
• Dawson City: Frozen Time
• Dealt
• The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
• Destination Unknown
• Dina
• Dolores
• Dream Big: Engineering Our World
• A Dying King: The Shah of Iran
• Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)
• Earth: One Amazing Day
• 11/8/16
• Elian
• Embargo
• Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
• Escapes
• Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
• Ex Libris - The New York Public Library
• Extraordinary Ordinary People
• Faces Places
• The Farthest
• The Final Year
• Finding Oscar
• 500 Years
• Food Evolution
• For Ahkeem
• The Force
• The Freedom to Marry
• From the Ashes
• Gaga: Five Foot Two
• A German Life
• Get Me Roger Stone
• Gilbert
• God Knows Where I Am
• Good Fortune
• A Gray State
• Hare Krishna! The Mantra, the Movement and the Swami Who Started It All
• Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
• Hearing Is Believing
• Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
• Human Flow
• I Am Another You
• I Am Evidence
• I Am Jane Doe
• I Called Him Morgan
• Icarus
• If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast
• The Incomparable Rose Hartman
• An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
• Intent to Destroy
• Jane
• Jeremiah Tower The Last Magnificent
• Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton
• Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
• Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower
• Karl Marx City
• Kedi
• Keep Quiet
• Kiki
• LA 92
• The Last Dalai Lama?
• The Last Laugh
• Last Men in Aleppo
• Legion of Brothers
• Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982 - 1992
• Let’s Play Two
• Letters from Baghdad
• Long Strange Trip
• Look & See
• Machines
• Man in Red Bandana
• Mr. Gaga: A True Story of Love and Dance
• Motherland
• Mully
• My Scientology Movie
• Naples ’44
• Neary’s - The Dream at the End of the Rainbow
• Night School
• No Greater Love
• No Stone Unturned
• Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
• Nowhere to Hide
• Obit
• Oklahoma City
• One of Us
• The Paris Opera
• The Pathological Optimist
• Prosperity
• The Pulitzer at 100
• Quest
• Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman
• The Rape of Recy Taylor
• The Reagan Show
• Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan
• Risk
• A River Below
• Rocky Ros Muc
• Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
• Santoalla
• School Life
• Score: A Film Music Documentary
• Served Like a Girl
• The Settlers
• 78/52
• Shadowman
• Shot! The Psycho Spiritual Mantra of Rock
• Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
• The Skyjacker’s Tale
• Sled Dogs
• Soufra
• Spettacolo
• Step
• Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking
• Strong Island
• Surviving Peace
• Swim Team
• Take Every Wave: The Life of Laird Hamilton
• Take My Nose... Please!
• They Call Us Monsters
• 32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide
• This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous
• Tickling Giants
• Trophy
• Twenty Two
• Unrest
• Vince Giordano - There’s a Future in the Past
• Voyeur
• Wait for Your Laugh
• Wasted! The Story of Food Waste
• Water & Power: A California Heist
• Whitney. Can I Be Me
• Whose Streets?
• The Work